title: Quantitative determination of domain distribution in SrTiO3-competing effects of applied electric field and mechanical stress.
abstract: Below its ordering temperature at 105 K, perovskite-type SrTiO(3) exhibits a tetragonal phase with three different structural domains that are strongly influenced by the application of uniaxial mechanical stresses and electric fields. A careful neutron diffraction study of superlattice reflections provides full quantitative information about the varying domain distributions under external loads as a function of temperature. It is shown that electric field and uniaxial stress exhibit competitive effects and the simultaneous application leads to a complex redistribution behaviour of the tetragonal domains. The results are discussed in the context of the formation of a field induced ferroelectric phase at low temperatures. The experimental findings demonstrate that its polarization is always perpendicular to the tetragonal axis and the polar phase has orthorhombic symmetry.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg August Universität Göttingen, Germany.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sidoruk
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Leist
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gibhardt
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meven
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hradil
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Eckold